Heaton — who plays Jonathan Byers in Stranger Things — also said he wanted to clarify that he “was not arrested or charged with a crime,” and he was “sorry to all the fans and my Stranger Things family for missing the premiere. We are all so proud of this season and I would never want this story to negatively impact the show.”

“It was hard. Everything happened so fast, and I hadn’t come to terms with the fact that I was famous,” he said. “When something steps in from the work you are doing and breaks into your personal life … you feel kind of vulnerable.”

He continued: “All of a sudden it becomes a very big story and it gets really blown out of proportion.”

He said that after the news broke, reporters arrived at his house as well as his parent’s house, which he said was very “hard” and “upsetting” for them to deal with.

“At the end of the day I just wanted to go back,” he said. “I want to work and continue to work – that’s all I’ve ever done.”